RESULTS: Photographs at Sotheby's
Today’s Photographs auction at Sotheby’s brought a total of $5,632,187, well above the estimate of $2.8/4.3 million. The sale was 82% sold and there were new records for Peter Beard, JaromÃr Funke, Mathew Brady and Timothy O’Sullivan.
“The wide range of photographers represented in our top-ten list says it all,” says Chris Mahoney, Senior Specialist, Sotheby’s Photographs Department. “To have great modernist works by Man Ray and JaromÃr Funke selling at new levels alongside great 19th-century American photographers such as Mathew Brady and Timothy O’Sullivan, and contemporary artists such as Peter Beard, shows the wonderful breadth of today’s photographs market. Our total of $5.6 million, well over our high estimate of $4.3 million, shows the strength and resilience of the market for important photographs.”